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 "title": "CIII",
 "poet": "William Shakespeare",
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   {
    "text": "Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That having such a scope to show her pride,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The argument all bare is of more worth",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than when it hath my added praise beside!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O, blame me not, if I no more can write!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Look in your glass, and there appears a face",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That over-goes my blunt invention quite,",
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   {
    "text": "Dulling my lines and doing me disgrace.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To mar the subject that before was well?",
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   {
    "text": "For to no other pass my verses tend",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than of your graces and your gifts to tell;",
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   {
    "text": "And more, much more, than in my verse can sit",
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    "text": "Your own glass shows you when you look in it.",
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